The hockey rinks of the American Hockey League have always been fascinating to some degree. Not too long ago, many of the facilities were small, intimate hockey barns that dotted the northeast of the United States and the Canadian Maritimes. Now, the league is getting set to be a coast to coast enterprise, but even currently there is a wide discrepancy in the average size of the hockey rinks that currently stretch from St. John's, Newfoundland, to San Antonio, Texas. I thought it would be interesting to throw out some statistics on the dynamics of the venues of the AHL.

A record crowd at the Melbourne Cricket Ground for the final of the 2015 ICC Cricket World Cup last night capped off the most attended cricket World Cup ever. Over 93,000 fans packed into the 'G to see Australia win their fifth World Cup, defeating their great rivals and tournament co-hosts, New Zealand. Australia has now won four of the past five World Cups.

The crowd figure was the highest ever for a game of cricket in Australia. It eclipsed both the previous single day record, set on the opening day of the 2013 Boxing Day Test, and the one-day international record, set during the final of the 1992 World Cup. The ICC has lauded the event as the best attended and most followed cricket tournament ever, with overall crowd figures totaling over one million.